Nothing lasts forever, so we do what we can to make things last. And yet the more we enjoy something, the more painful it is when it ends. It all comes down to risk and reward trade-offs. Do you regret the risks you don’t take? Do you take the risk knowing that you’ll feel sad when something wonderful comes to an end? These questions speak deeply to your risk personality. On this final episode of IQ4U Dr. James Norrie and Dr. Tamara Schwartz reflect on the many ways our risk personality influences our lives. But don’t feel too disappointed, the journey continues in June when Tammy launches her new podcast – WMD: Weapons of Mass Disruption.

Why does someone accept a risk or not? What rewards make us embrace more risk than we might otherwise be typically comfortable with? And how do we use information to assess those risks? This constant risk-reward calculus – underpinned by what academics call prospect theory – is actually very personal. Yet it actually defines in intriguing ways how most of us navigate many important aspects of our lives. An especially interesting area where the impact of this on each of us is highest is how we make critical economic decisions such as investing, saving, and spending…so stick with us for this episode to find out more and especially how your myQ style may provide insights into your personal investment decisions and actions!

Events like the recent Georgia mass murder at local massage parlors, the storming of the Capitol on January 6th, and the expansion of militia activity in the United States have people asking, “how did this happen?” But this type of online recruitment and radicalization is not new. Extremists in the west have been learning from radical Islamists, and are now employing the same techniques in western democracies. On this episode of IQ4U Dr. Tamara Schwartz and Dr. James Norrie discuss the techniques and targets of online radicalization.

In early 2020 hackers (purportedly Russians according to US Intelligence sources), secretly embedded malicious code into the Texas-based company's "Orion" product. This middleware was widely used by over 33,000 organizations to manage IT resources, including most of the US government. In this episode we will explore why this particular hack discovered in November of 2020 has now been labelled "the most dangerous cybersecurity crime ever committed against the United States..."